BSR-logo-01
Biosciene Resource Project Logo

“Our mission is to provide the highest quality scientific information and analysis to enable a healthy food system and a healthy world”

The Bioscience Resource Project provides scientific and intellectual resources for a healthy future. It publishes Independent Science News, a media service devoted to food and agriculture, and their impacts on health and the environment. It also offers resources for scientists and educators and internships and training for students. Through its innovative scientific journalism and original biosafety review articles, the project provides unique and revealing perspectives on issues that are fundamental to the survival of people and the planet. The project does not accept advertising or corporate funding and is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. It is completely dependent on individual donations.We invite you to join the Project as a contributor or a donor.

Bioscience Resource Project News and Views

New on ISN: How “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm

Mar 28, 2014 |

Published on Tuesday March 25th on Independent Science News: “How “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm” by Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra.

Article Synopsis: Many GMO crops are resistant to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup (active ingredient: glyphosate). This resistance allows farmers to spray the herbicide over the crop to control weeds. As weeds in the US and elsewhere have increasingly gained resistance to Roundup, farmers have been spraying more herbicide more often. Yet read more…

Share

Researchers Uncover Multiple Sources of Bias in GMO Risk Assessments

Feb 25, 2014 |

The GMO risk assessment process claimed to protect the public acts instead to protect industry. Scientists Hartmut Meyer and Angelika Hilbeck reviewed Monsanto’s rat toxicology studies on GM maize NK603 and identified flawed methods that bias results in industries’ favor. One such method is the use of multiple unrelated ‘pseudo-controls’ that make aberrant results look normal. Pseudo-controls have become a common component of other GMO risk studies, not only feeding trials. Meyer and Hilbeck also found that GMO studies routinely fail to use read more…

Share

The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will Be the Future of Medicine

Feb 3, 2014 |

Published today (February 3rd 2014) in Independent Science News: “The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will be the New Medicine” by T Colin Campbell.

Can diet cure disease, and not just prevent it? Scientific evidence is accumulating that diets which emphasize consumption of plants and which avoid meat and dairy products can rapidly reverse common and life-threatening chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. For these and other common diseases research is showing that a diet-based cure is much more effective than current medical treatments which are largely ineffectual, expensive, and plagued by side effects. These important facts about the power of nutrition are not widely known, however. That is because they simultaneously challenge the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical profession. The latter read more…

Share

Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Scientific Journalism

Jan 7, 2014 |

Published today in Independent Science News: “Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism“, by Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director of The Bioscience Resource Project.

“The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It’s not our job to cozy up to power. We’re supposed to be the check and balance on government.” — Amy Goodman

Goodman, like many others, believes the role of a democratic press is that of public interest watchdog.

For the the science media it appears to be the role not taken. This failure is perhaps most evident in its coverage of the Ag-Biotech industry, where the gap between what the data supports and the press reports appears ever-widening. Especially telling are the articles describing ‘humanitarian’ GMO breakthroughs in which biotech crops are proposed, read more…

Share
Donate button

Sign up to our mailing list

E-mail address :
Name (optional):

Document Leaks

Exposing the Toxic Secrets of Corporations and Regulators

Quote of the day

Science is molded by society because it is a human productive activity that takes time and money, and so is guided and directed by those forces in the world that have control over money and time. Science uses commodities and is part of the process of commodity production. Science uses money. People earn their living by science, and as a consequence the dominant social and economic forces in society determine to a large extent what science does and how it does it.

- R. C. Lewontin, 'Biology as Ideology'

Our latest video

How the Evolution of Novel COVID-19 Variants Validates the Mojiang Miners Passage theory.

  • Recommended websites
    • AGRA Watch
      AGRA Watch monitors and questions the Gates Foundation's participation in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
    • Agroecology Now!
      Agroecology Now! is a research, action and communications project convened by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience that focuses on understanding and supporting the societal transformations necessary to enable agroecology as a model for sustain
    • Campaign for Real Farming
      “Farming that is expressly designed to feed people without wrecking the rest of the world”
    • Center for Health, Environment & Justice
    • Community Seed Network
      The Community Seed Network connects and supports community seed initiatives by providing resources, information, and a platform for networking.
    • Downwinders At Risk
      Cleaner Air Through Citizen Action: Downwinders at Risk believes that environmental protection is a Do-It-Yourself proposition, and that effective community organizing is the key to providing it.
    • Eco Ruralis Romania
      Eco Ruralis is a grassroots association made up of small organic and traditional farmers. Supports collection and use of traditional seeds, WWOOF Romania. Documents land grabs and aids farmers affected by shale gas extraction.
    • Ending Corporate Governance
      Information and insights on how people can regain control over their government.
    • Family Farm Defenders
    • Food First
      The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First analyzes the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and develops solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
    • Food Sleuth Blog and Radio
      ... Helping people think beyond their plates ... *Critical Thinking for Food System Literacy*
    • GM WATCH
      Latest News and Comment on GM Foods and Crops
    • GMOSCIENCE
      We are physicians, biochemists, plant geneticists, and other scientists joined in a commitment to provide a public platform where genetically engineered (GE) crop and food impacts are openly discussed and thoughtfully analyzed.
    • Health News Review.Org
      Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories
    • Innovative Farmers
    • Local Futures: Economics of Happiness
      Local Futures’ mission is to protect and renew ecological and social well being by promoting a systemic shift away from economic globalization towards localization. Through its “education for action” programs, Local Futures develops innovative models and
    • Mad in America
      Science, Psychiatry and Community
    • Oakland Institute
      he Oakland Institute is an independent policy think tank, bringing fresh ideas and bold action to the most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues of our time.
    • Organic Consumers Association
      Campaigning for Health, Justice, Sustainability, Peace, and Democracy
    • Protecting Organic Farms From Energy Infrastructure (Pipelines)
      The routing and siting of MPL's MinnCan crude oil pipeline project provides a case study to assist in protecting organic farms from energy infrastructure. Affidavits and a highly detailed organic management plan established that the Diffley's Gardens of E
    • PSE - Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy
      PSE is dedicated to supplying objective, evidence-based, scientific information and resources on unconventional gas development (high-volume hydrofracking), other novel energy production methods, and energy use by society. PSE's mission is to bring transp
    • RADICALSTATISTICS
      RadStats: Social problems should not be disguised by technical language.
    • Real Organic Project
      Feed the Soil, Feed the Planet. Our mission is to grow people’s understanding of foundational organic values and practices. Our first goal is to create an add-on label to USDA certified organic to provide more transparency on organic farming practices.
    • Setting an Anti-Racist Table
      Links to Organizations and Conferences, Papers and Articles about racism, food, farming and fairness
    • Small Planet Institute
      Living democracy, feeding hope -- food myth busters
    • TestBiotech
      Institute for Independent Impact Assessment in Biotechnology
    • The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
      ABC is a research and advocacy organisation working towards food sovereignty and agro-ecology in Africa, with a focus on biosafety, seed systems and agricultural biodiversity. The organisation is committed to dismantling inequalities.
    • Tribe of Heart
      Inspired by the words and deeds of social justice visionaries of past eras, we create documentary films, educational web sites, critical thinking essays, teaching presentations and grassroots advocacy programs that expose hidden injustices, awaken compass
    • TWN Third World Network
      Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international research and advocacy organisation involved in issues relating to development, developing countries and North-South affairs.
    • Volatility: Series on Food Sovereignty
      Working out the way forward to a just and sustainable future
    • War On Want
      Fighting Global Poverty (And Promoting Food Sovereignty)

Share
Share